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Do professors really perpetuate the gender gap in science? Evidence from a natural experiment in a French higher education institution
Breda, Thomas; Ly, Son Thierry - HAL - 2012
experiment, we show the opposite: discrimination goes in favor of females in more male-connoted subjects (e.g. math, philosophy … between science and humanities majors. We identify discrimination by systematic differences in students' scores between oral … each subject and for her overall ability at oral exams. The mechanisms likely to drive this positive discrimination toward …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010738832
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How Wages and Employment Adjust to Trade Liberalization: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Austria
Brülhart, Marius; Carrere, Céline; Trionfetti, Federico - HAL - 2011
We study the responses of regional employment and nominal wages to trade liberalization, exploiting the natural experiment provided by the opening of Central and Eastern European markets after the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1990. Using data for Austrian municipalities, we examine differential...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009207110
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A large scale experiment: wages and educational expansion in France
Gurgand, Marc; Maurin, Eric - HAL - 2007
We evaluate the wage impact of the strong and rapid increase in schooling levels experienced by the cohorts born after WWII in France. In order to identify the causal effect of education, we exploit the fact that the small group of people graduating from elite education (Grandes Ecoles) remained...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010738887
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Racial Discrimination in the U.S. Labor Market: Employment and Wage Differentials by Skill
Borowczyk-Martins, Daniel; Bradley, Jake; Tarasonis, Linas - HAL - 2014
high-skill workers. In this paper we show that a model of employer taste-based discrimination in a labor market … workers. We use the model to undertake a structural decomposition and conclude that discrimination resulting from employer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010933808
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Ingratiation and Favoritism: Experimental Evidence
Robin, Stéphane; Rusinowska, Agnieszka; Villeval, … - HAL - 2012
We provide experimental evidence of workers' ingratiation by opinion conformity and of managers' discrimination in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010929091
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Migrants as second-class workers in urban China? A decomposition analysis
Démurger, Sylvie; Gurgand, Marc; Shi, Li; Ximing, Yue - HAL - 2008
In urban China, urban resident annual earnings are 1.3 times larger than long term rural migrant earnings as observed in a nationally representative sample in 2002. Using microsimulation, we decompose this difference into four sources, with particular attention to path dependence and statistical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010930208
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Mesurer la diversité et l'impact des actions de lutte contre la discrimination : état des lieux et pistes de réflexion
Zannad, Hédia - HAL - 2009
La lutte contre la discrimination et la promotion de la diversité sont devenues des enjeux forts pour les entreprises … abordées : nous cherchons, tout d'abord, à comprendre les notions et les enjeux propres à la diversité et à la discrimination …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010535375
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(Petite) histoire de la discrimination (dans les assurances)
Pradier, Pierre-Charles - HAL - 2011
Une étude de l'histoire de la discrimination dans l'assurance montre que les données actuarielles sont rarement … suffisantes pour justifier dans le public cette discrimination. On étudie en particulier la discrimination à l'égard des femmes à …'acceptabilité sociale de la discrimination dans les assurances. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009322689
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Power distribution and endogenous segregation
Bros, Catherine - HAL - 2008
The aim of this paper is to provide a detailed analysis of the process of segregation formation. The claim is that segregation does not originate from prejudice or exogenous psychological factors. Rather it is the product of strategic interactions among social groups in a setting where one group...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010750463
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Quelles pratiques de ressources humaines en faveur de l'égalité hommes-femmes en entreprise ?
Lemière, Séverine - HAL - 2005
Ce document part du constat que l'ensemble des aspects traités par la fonction Ressources humaines peut générer des risques d'inégalités et de discriminations, certes indirectes mais dont le résultat reste discriminatoire : recrutement, gestion des carrières, pratiques salariales, gestion...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010750712